After the ball

Collected by Max Hunter (H-9)
For Mary C. Parler
Transcribed by Frances Majors
Sung by Mrs. C. C. Dorothy Williford
Springfield, Missouri
July 1, 1958
Reel 251-52, Item 15
After the Ball
A little maiden climbed an old man's knee,
Begged for a story, Do, uncle, please.
Why are you single, why live alone?
Have you no baby, have you no home?
I had a sweetheart, years, years ago;
Where she is now, pet, you will soon know.
List to the story, I'll tell it all;
I believed her faithless, after the ball.
After the ball is over, after the break of morn,
After the dancers' leaving, after the stars are gone,
Many a heart is aching, if you could read them all,
Many the hopes that have vanished, after the ball.

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Collected by Max Hunter (H-9)
For Mary C. Parler
Transcribed by Frances Majors
Sung by Mrs. C. C. Dorothy Williford
Springfield, Missouri
July 1, 1958
Reel 251-52, Item 15
After the Ball
A little maiden climbed an old man's knee,
Begged for a story, Do, uncle, please.
Why are you single, why live alone?
Have you no baby, have you no home?
I had a sweetheart, years, years ago;
Where she is now, pet, you will soon know.
List to the story, I'll tell it all;
I believed her faithless, after the ball.
After the ball is over, after the break of morn,
After the dancers' leaving, after the stars are gone,
Many a heart is aching, if you could read them all,
Many the hopes that have vanished, after the ball.